Kim Porter
Kim Porter is a personal finance writer whose work has been published everywhere from Bankrate to Yahoo! Finance, U.S. News & World Report, Credit Karma, USA Today and Fortune. She has written hundreds of articles on topics including mortgages, debt, credit, insurance, identity theft and banking.
Early in her career, Kim used her developing personal finance knowledge to pay off $10,000 in credit card debt, and then helped her husband pay off $130,000 in student loans over the course of four years. This experience helped shape Kim's understanding of what it takes to pay off debt, the various tools and strategies you can use, and how to better plan for the future.
Expertise: Debt, mortgage, credit, insurance
Experience: Kim was the copy chief at Bankrate.com from 2012 to 2013, where she also co-wrote an e-book titled "Future Millionaires' Guidebook." She then went on to become a managing editor at Macmillan, a global publishing company. In 2018, she began writing about personal finance full time.
